General view of a laboratory bench at the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (H.R.I.M.R.) showing assorted laboratory glassware and scientific apparatus. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (later Rockefeller University) was founded in June 1901 as America's first biomedical institute akin to the Pasteur Institute (1888) in France and the Robert Koch Institute in Germany (1891). The Hospital, which opened in 1910, was America's first facility devoted to clinical research, with a focus on researching the safety and efficacy of medications, devices, and treatment regimens intended for human use.